042 BackboneJS

12 May 2013

BackboneJS is a client-side MV* framework that will help us structure our code, provide templates to inject the data as well as render a fast changes UI with ajax. In this episode we will create a simple client-side reading list of computing books!

BackboneJS has one hard dependancy, UnderscoreJS and we will also include jQuery for any DOM manipulation. Let’s first create the bare index.html file. Open the console in the browser and query for $ for jQuery, _ for underscore and Backbone for backbone.